The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes, Volumen6A. Constable & Company, 1821 |
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... Adrastus and Eurydice , has traced out the events of the drama , in close imitation of Sophocles . The Grecian bard , however , in concurrence with the history or tradition of Greece , has made dipus survive the discovery of his ...
... Adrastus and Eurydice , has traced out the events of the drama , in close imitation of Sophocles . The Grecian bard , however , in concurrence with the history or tradition of Greece , has made dipus survive the discovery of his ...
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... Adrastus and Eurydice , which contributes little either to the effect or merit of the play : Creon , in his ambition and his deformity , is a poor copy of Richard III . , without his abilities ; his plots and treasons are baffled by the ...
... Adrastus and Eurydice , which contributes little either to the effect or merit of the play : Creon , in his ambition and his deformity , is a poor copy of Richard III . , without his abilities ; his plots and treasons are baffled by the ...
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... Adrastus kills Creon , and the insurgents kill Adrastus ; when we add to this , that the con- spirators are hanged , the reader will perceive , that the play , which began with a pestilence , concludes with a massacre , And darkness is ...
... Adrastus kills Creon , and the insurgents kill Adrastus ; when we add to this , that the con- spirators are hanged , the reader will perceive , that the play , which began with a pestilence , concludes with a massacre , And darkness is ...
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... Adrastus , Eurydice , and Creon . The truth is , he miserably failed in the character of his hero : If he desired that Edipus should be pitied , he should have made him a better man . He forgot , that So- phocles had taken care to shew ...
... Adrastus , Eurydice , and Creon . The truth is , he miserably failed in the character of his hero : If he desired that Edipus should be pitied , he should have made him a better man . He forgot , that So- phocles had taken care to shew ...
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... your penn'orths of the play , And come resolved to damn , because you pay , Record it , in memorial of the fact , The first play buried since the Woollen Act . VOL . VI . DRAMATIS PERSONE . EDIPUS , King of Thebes . ADRASTUS PROLOGUE . 129.
... your penn'orths of the play , And come resolved to damn , because you pay , Record it , in memorial of the fact , The first play buried since the Woollen Act . VOL . VI . DRAMATIS PERSONE . EDIPUS , King of Thebes . ADRASTUS PROLOGUE . 129.
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Página 223 - Keeps honour bright: To have done, is to hang Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail In monumental mockery. Take the instant way; For honour travels in a strait so narrow, Where one but goes abreast: keep then the path...
Página 223 - High birth, vigour of bone, desert in service, Love, friendship, charity, are subjects all To envious and calumniating time. One touch of nature makes the whole world kin...
Página 285 - Too subtle-potent, tun'd too sharp in sweetness, For the capacity of my ruder powers: I fear it much; and I do fear besides, That I shall lose distinction in my joys...
Página 188 - E'en wondered at because he dropt no sooner; Fate seemed to wind him up for fourscore years; Yet freshly ran he on ten winters more, Till, like a clock worn out with eating Time, The wheels of weary life at last stood still.
Página 223 - For honour travels in a strait so narrow, Where one but goes abreast; keep then the path; For emulation hath a thousand sons, That one by one pursue: If you...
Página 117 - Yet man, vain man, would with his short-lined plummet Fathom the vast abyss of heavenly justice. Whatever is, is in its causes just, Since all things are by fate. But purblind man Sees but a part o' th' chain, the nearest links, His eyes not carrying to that equal beam That poises all above.
Página 258 - God save him; No joyful tongue gave him his welcome home : But dust was thrown upon his sacred head ; Which with such gentle sorrow he shook off, — His face still combating with tears and smiles, The badges of his grief and patience ; — That had not God, for some strong purpose, steel'd The hearts of men, they must perforce have melted, And barbarism itself have pitied him.
Página 365 - AmboyS" upon the theatre ; but when I had taken up what I supposed a fallen star, I found I had been cozened with a jelly ;* nothing but a cold, dull mass, which glittered no longer than it was shooting...
Página 223 - For time is like a fashionable host That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And, with his arms outstretch'd, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer: welcome ever smiles, And farewell goes out sighing.
Página 440 - Kings' titles commonly begin by force, Which time wears off, and mellows into right; So power, which, in one age, is tyranny, Is ripened, in the next, to true succession: She's in possession.